Open your heart to the voice of George Bernard Shaw.

In Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw takes on the well-known story of peasant-girl-turned-general Joan of Arc and in the process addresses issues of organized religion and nationalist ideology — while also making room for a few good witch-burning jokes. As Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway revival of the classic play celebrated its April 25 opening, the production's cast took a few minutes away from the evening's festivities to share their favorite bits of Shavian dialogue.

Enjoy a few moments of literary ecstasy as Condola Rashad and her costars testify to the lines that they think are to die for.

It's because of the sense of incredulity. It exposes the deep hypocrisy of both sets of authority figures, and it's one of those opportunities that Shaw takes —he's really good at making authority figures look ridiculous. And so I like that.

[Those moments of levity] are so welcome because…God knows, a play about burning a teenage girl could be a bummer.

My character in the second act is quite irate about the theft of a horse, and I enjoy each time that I bring it up. But the final time that I get to say it, Joan has just said that she was in a state of grace and I ask her "Were you in a state of grace when you stole the Bishop's horse?"

I love leaning into it every night. And it just cracks me up. It goes over well – I'm gonna knock on wood. It really helps to smooth it out and give it a breath and allows it to be really accessible.

"It is so easy to talk when you don't know. You madden yourself with words: you damn yourself because it feels grand to throw oil on the flaming hell of your own temper."

If ever there were words that for me resonated today in this age of divisiveness and rage, I feel it's those. People love to be angry about something, and they don't argue in good faith and they don't listen.